Hello Folks! Hope you all had a great Christmas and will have a happy and healthy New Year. I have posted this before, but it was some time ago and I am sure we have some new members since then. My biggest roadblock, which is keeping this branch of the family stalled in the 5th generation back from me, is in the person of Alexander Hossack/Hussack Brown, my GGG Grandfather. My connection to him is as follows: Me - Kathryn Lee (Wilson) Skarka (mother) - Frances Brown (Albin) Wilson (grandmother) - Charles Albin (great grandfather) - Fannie (Brown) Albin (gg grandmother) - Alexander H. Brown (ggg grandfather) Alexander H. Brown was born in 1816 and died in 1891. He is buried in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery in Center Moriches, LI, NY. He was married to Ruth Ann Pawson. As near as I can determine, Alexander and Ruth had three children, George, Frances (Fanny) and another daughter whose name I can't recall right now for some reason. I have had no luck in finding Alexander's family. For a time, all I knew was that his name was Alexander H. Brown (from his tombstone). He appears in the 1850 census in Southampton Town (not clear on what hamlet, but it might be Westhampton) as Alexander H. Brown. In the 1870 Census he appears in Brookhaven Town, East Moriches also as Alexander H. Brown. For a time I could not find him in the 1860 or 1880 Censuses. Then a friend of mine found where he was listed in the 1860 Census as "Hussac" Brown (wife Ruth..correct children). With this info, I found him in the 1880 Census listed as "Hussack" Brown. I began searching this name and got a hit on an Alexander Hossack in 1790 in New York City. Alexander Hossack was married to Jane Arden. They had a son, Alexander Hossack, who was a doctor who tended Aaron Burr after the famous duel. >From this, I suspect that my ggg grandfather was Alexander Hossack Brown... somehow related to this Hossack family. Perhaps his mother was a Hossack who married a Brown, but I have not been able to find such a couple. Does anyone know of this family or have any suggestions? Gary Skarka